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• Shrike-like Tanager Neothraupis fasciata

  

  This tanager occurs in Brazil's Cerrado. A study of wild, DNA-sexed birds found that the male's black facial mask reaches the lores, while the female's is limited to the auriculars.

• White-bibbed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus rivoli

  The male's white crescent-shaped breast patch helps identify this fruit-eating pigeon. It lives mainly in mountain forests and feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Necklaced Spinetail Synallaxis stictothorax

  This ovenbird occurs in lowlands from Ecuador into northwestern Peru. Breast spotting varies, and flank color helps distinguish it from related species.

• Canary Islands Bush Chat Saxicola dacotiae

  The Canary Islands Bush Chat is endemic to the Canary Islands and occurs in rocky, scrubby areas of Fuerteventura.

• Greater Wagtail-Tyrant Stigmatura budytoides

  A flycatcher with a very long, white-tipped tail; it is also recorded in Argentine scrublands and protected areas.

• White-throated Wedgebill Schistes albogularis

  This hummingbird occurs on the western slope of the Andes from western Colombia south to southwestern Ecuador. A South American Classification Committee proposal describes its habitat as a humid, Choco-type Pacific-slope distribution.

• Black-eared Hemispingus Sphenopsis melanotis

  The Peru account places this tanager in Andean montane forest and describes several forms with variable plumage. It forages in dense foliage from the understory into the middle story.

• Common Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica

  A dove with iridescent green on its wings. It searches for food along forest trails and on the forest floor, and is often seen alone in Hong Kong.

• Des Murs's Wiretail Sylviorthorhynchus desmurii

  It is a small bird with a slender tail: about 22 cm long overall, with a tail of about 14 cm. It lives in humid forest and dense undergrowth in southern South America.

• Blue-breasted Blue Flycatcher Cyornis herioti

  A Luzon flycatcher whose male has dark blue upperparts. It uses forest, and one nest was reported in a shallow rock cavity beside a river in Aurora National Park in 2009.

• Acre Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus cohnhafti

  It was described near Assis Brasil in Acre, Brazil. The 2013 original description said the type locality was the only known site then; a later account also shows records from Rio Branco.

• Coppery Emerald Chlorostilbon russatus

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and western Venezuela. The male is golden green with coppery tones, while the female has gray underparts; it feeds in scrub and forest edges.

• Golden-billed Saltator Saltator aurantiirostris

  In the Argentine account, the Golden-billed Saltator has a black face and orange bill. In Bolivia, it uses woodland, scrub, farmland, and towns on the eastern Andean slope and in southern lowlands.

• Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rubricera

  The Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon has a red knob at the base of its bill. It forages mainly in trees for fruit and berries and is native to the Bismarck and Solomon Islands.

• Chestnut-crowned Foliage-gleaner Automolus rufipileatus

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in riverine forest and seasonally flooded várzea across the Amazon basin, feeding low in dense vegetation.

• Green-backed Flycatcher Ficedula elisae

  This flycatcher breeds in eastern China and winters in southern Thailand and the Malay Peninsula. It is recorded mainly during autumn passage in Hong Kong.

• Ticking Doradito Pseudocolopteryx citreola

  The Ticking Doradito breeds in central Chile and western Argentina, then moves north to Bolivia in winter.

• Inagua Woodstar Nesophlox lyrura

  This hummingbird is restricted to Great and Little Inagua in the Bahamas. Males have an iridescent rose-purple forehead and throat and a deeply forked tail.

• Piura Hemispingus Sphenopsis piurae

  Sphenopsis piurae is recorded in southern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. A specialist species account reports it in bamboo patches.

• Rapa Fruit Dove Ptilinopus huttoni

  Its head, neck, chest, and upper back are blue-grey, shading into a green body. Pink on the head and throat, a rose-purple breast band, and a yellow lower belly add color. It eats fleshy fruit and flower nectar in forest remnants on Rapa Island.

• Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia lichtensteini

  This ovenbird family species has photographic records in southeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It searches among branches and leaves for invertebrates and may follow mixed-species flocks.

• White-capped Redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus

  This streamside flycatcher breeds in Central Asia, the Himalayas and much of China. Its white crown and nape, black chest and reddish-brown belly and tail are distinctive. In winter it moves to lower elevations.

• Handsome Flycatcher Nephelomyias pulcher

  It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes and forages in the midstory. The source describes two separated populations at the northern and southern ends of the range.

• Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus

  This hummingbird is recorded from Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. It also uses dry woodland, semi-deciduous forest, and shrubby edges.